Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
not producing or capable of producing;
- Example: "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries"2.
not producing desired results;
- Example: "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unproductive \Unproductive\
See productive.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unproductive
adj 1: not producing or capable of producing; "elimination of
high-cost or unproductive industries" [ant: productive]
2: not producing desired results; "the talks between labor and
management were unproductive"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "unproductive":
abortive, acarpous, arid, barren, bootless, celibate, childless,
desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow,
fruitless, gainless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffective,
ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached,
menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific,
nonremunerative, otiose, profitless, rewardless, sine prole,
sterile, sucked dry, teemless, unavailable, unavailing,
uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unprofitable,
unprolific, unremunerative, unrewarding, unsown, untilled, useless,
vain, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue